State size comparison

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California is about 3,338 times bigger than San Francisco.

San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 333,687% larger than San Francisco.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of San Francisco vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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